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The Pacific 2010 Rent or own: https://amzn.to/3VkUiIFBased on the accounts of Marines in World War II, this 10-part miniseries follows the intertwined journ...
Former American prisoners of war held in Japan during World War II are touring places they were held nearly 70 years ago, and recounting their memories.
(16 Oct 2014) American former prisoners of war (POWs) held in Japan during World War II on Thursday toured places they were held nearly 70 years ago, and rec...
9 Δεκ 2016 · Allied troops who had the misfortune to be taken prisoner by the Japanese during World War II quickly learned that the Geneva Convention might as well not exist.
12 Σεπ 2014 · The treatment of American and allied prisoners by the Japanese is one of the abiding horrors of World War II. Prisoners were routinely beaten, starved and abused and forced to work in...
By June 1942, most of the estimated 27,000 Americans ultimately held as military POWs of Imperial Japan had been surrendered. By the War’s end, roughly 12,000 Americans POWs had died in Japan’s squalid POW camps, in the fetid holds of “hellships,” or in slave labor camps owned by Japanese companies.
For the Japanese soldier fighting in World War II, the worst humiliation was capture by the enemy. So when American servicemen surrendered, many in the early days of the war on the Philippines, their new captors felt only contempt for them, projecting their own culture onto enemy combatants.
